Wonderful Winter Storm!

We thought that on Sunday we were going to be able to hang out watch football, maybe play in the snow and just chill, yeah that all turned around when we woke up to discover that the winter storm had knocked down a bunch of tree branches all over our driveway. We had this huge willow tree in our front yard, actually it was so big that it was our house marker. We told everyone who was coming over to our house just to look for the white house with red trim and it had a huge umbrella looking tree in the front. So much for our marker! Here is how the story goes: On Saturday night we came into our driveway to find some branches hanging, not broken just hanging really far down. The weather didn't get cold enough to drop the leaves, so it was like a car wash pulling into the garage. I hated that tree, I wished that we would have cut it down with the others last year. What a mess, so here we are on a Sunday morning calling my poor dad (who thought he would get a relaxing day) to come over with his chain saw to cut it down. Our original plan was to just cut down the branches that broke, but after we got started decided that a couple more storms and we would have another mess to clean up, so might as well cut down the entire tree. Little Amaya did come out and play in the snow for a while, until she got too cold and went inside to entertain herself. She was a little trooper, she stayed inside for like 2 hrs just peeking outside once in a while to make sure we were still there. My mom came to get her so that she could play and not have to be by herself. Just like I said before, my parents and in laws are the best, there is no way we would be able to survive without them. There we were in the cold, cutting down this huge tree, lugging wood and sweating. Not fun, but needless to say that everyone was a good sport and got the job done. Now on the side of my house, all you can see is branches, and logs of wood all over. We look like the biggest hillbillies. Who needs to put up a fence when you have a bunch of branches blocking the side? And then I was thinking,k wow that is going to be a heaven for a bunch of mice, yep getting a cat for Christmas. I actually think that Traci would be more than happy to lend me some of hers. We just have to worry about spring time when the big dumpsters come, that is going to be another nice day of cleanup. I will post pictures soon of all the mess!